¶ … GI Bill do?
It provided health care to wounded veterans of World War II.
It allowed American veterans of World War II to go to college free and to obtain low-interest mortgages.
It gave American veterans a pension so that they would not have to work.
It permitted the families of servicemen killed in the war to receive compensation.
It made all veterans exempt from taxation.
How did the United States respond to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin in 1948?
It used an airlift to resupply West Berlin.
It threatened to launch a preemptive nuclear war.
It allowed West Berlin to become part of East Germany.
It permitted the Soviet Union to participate in the government of West Berlin.
It exchanged the right to West Berlin for access to Prague.
President Harry Truman developed the Truman Doctrine in 1947 because he wanted to give European countries economic assistance.
rebuild the militaries of Great Britain and France in order to resist communism.
x provide military and economic aid for Turkey and Greece to resist the spread of communism.
offer the Soviet Union an opportunity for reconciliation.
place atomic weapons under international control.
4. The 1948 Marshall Plan was important because it helped which geographic area recover and rebuild after World War II?
The Soviet Union
Eastern Europe
x
Western Europe
Southeast Asia
Northern Africa
5. Which of the following statements concerning the formation of
The Taft-Hartley Act
x outlawed the closed shop and permitted the president to call a cooling-off period to delay a strike.
expanded the rights of labor unions.
constituted a slave-labor bill that crippled the labor movement in the United States.
was the cornerstone of President Truman's Fair Deal.
was the first New Deal act that was repealed in the Truman administration.
7. In 1950, Joseph McCarthy argued that Eisenhower should lead a military coup against President Truman.
that the United States should seek a peace settlement with the Soviet Union.
that UN forces should use the atomic bomb against North Korea.
x that there were communists working in the American government.
none of these.
8. In the years immediately after World War II, what did most American civil-rights leaders do?
They ended most of their activity in the South because of intimidation, repression, and murder.
They found themselves shut out of the White House because…
